staregazer by sammantha lewis (good e books to read .TXT) 📕

red-haired man road by and swept Joshua up.
“Joshua, you will ride with Frances." Liam said. The red haired man looked at me.
"William, who is the girl? I'd be willing to switch with you," he sarcastically offered. Liam glared at Frances ,
"Vera is to only ride with Me." he ordered. He kicked the horse, and we took off running.
"Liam, where are we?" I asked trying to make sense of the map.
"You’re the star reader," he said.
"I cannot read the stars if I can't see them!"
"Fine, we're in Wales."
"Thank you." I said I looked at the map and saw that a hidden road was coming up.
" Liam go left!" I told him. He turned on to the left road. The road was narrow. It was rugged and highly uneven. The hours jumped over a fallen tree, threw me of the horse, but Liam put his arm around me to secure me.
" I can't have you falling off." He said. I looked up at the sky, It was twilight now.
"The first camp is not too far from hear." I informed him.
The map was correct. It was now nighttime, Liam decided to stop and rest there for the night. I helped the men pitch the three enormous tents. It took use about three hours to pitch the tents. After that, Joshua and I help the cook, Jack, in the kitchen.
"Miss. Vera, how old are you" Joshua asked me with curious eyes.
“I’m Fifteen, and how old are you?" I asked him. Joshua dropped the potatoes he was peeling on the ground to hold up all of his fingers.
"I'm seven!" He smiled. Joshua was a sweet boy with bright blue eyes.
"OI! Short one! DON'T DROP OUR DINNER ON THE FLOOR!" Jack was frustrated with Joshua who really was only helping because I was.
"uhem" we all turned to see who made the sound. The sound came from Liam ,who was standing in the doorway.
"Vera, may I see you?" Liam asked. I got up and walked with Liam to his tent. When I walked in, I noticed that there was a dress lying on the bed. I looked back at him in dismay.
"You've been wearing that dress for only god knows how long, and you smell like a pipe smoker," he said. I laughed slightly. I began to pull my dress off,when I noticed that he was still watching me. I raised my eyes and stared at him.
"are you just going to watch me undress?" Liam seemed to be frozen in a state of shock almost.
"Liam! OUT!" I ordered him. Liam woke up from his daydream.
"I'm so sorry, I'll watch - I mean guard the door." Liam left the room in a hurry. I smiled to myself and giggled at his foolishness. I lifted my dress over my head and slipped on the new one. I looked at my reflection in the mirror. The dress was an emerald green gown that reached the floor, the sleeves were ruffled and a golden ribbon was placed below the bust. I enjoyed looking at the dress, but my hair is a rat's nest I undid my braid that I haven't taken out sense that day. I combed my hair with my fingers and tied it back with my ribbon. I was going to tell Liam that I was finish, but Joshua came in running.
"Vera! My finger, my finger." he was in tears and tried to grip the cut. It wasn't too long before Liam and Jack came in running.
"Hey runt! I told you not to come in here!" Liam yelled.
"You can't run out while working!" Jack was even more frustrated with him. I glared at the two of them. Then I turned back to Joshua, and tried to calm him down.
"Joshua, your cut is not that bad. look." I whipped the blood from his fingertip, showing him that the cut was no bigger than a paper cut.
"do you see what I mean?" I smiled at him. Joshua sniffled.
"I-it still stings." He wind. I chuckled, and got a small cloth and dipped it in water, I then dabbed his small cut.
"Does it still hurt?" he shook his head.
"Vera, how do you know all this?" he asked. I showed him my hands that were covered in knives scars, and burns.
"how did you get all those?" he asked I smiled at him and told him
"the same way you cut your finger." after he calmed down he waved and went back with Jack.
"Joshua seems to like you." Liam said. He walked into the tent sat next to on the ground.
"I guess he does." I said.
"You probably remind him of his sister."
"He has a sister?"
"Had* a sister. I've been taking Fredrick for many years, for reasons like yours. You’re not the only one to have this happen to you. Joshua was five years-old and his sister was fifteen. She was the one who taught how to shoot. Whenever he talks about her he always says that she was pretty, smart, kind and that she was greatest achreress. He also said that she did a funny thing with her thumb when she pulled back."
"she used her thumb instead of a claw." I pieced together why Joshua was so close to me.
"what happened to her?" I asked. Liam looked at the ground and looked back up at me. His eyes were always emotionless, but this time they were sad.
"Joshua, his sister, and his parents lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere. And on day Fredrick and his men were passing by and decided to robe them they took everything in the house to sell it, and tied his family together in the house and burned it down."
"You said she was fifteen, why was she killed? He never kills children."
"She said that she would rather die than live without her family. Therefore, Fredrick granted her wish. As for Joshua, he ran-away into the forest where I found him trying to steal food." Liam looked over at me and saw me crying silently.
"You don't have cry." he said.
"Yes. But I was so sure that I was the only on who's parents were killed like that." I said. Liam whipped my tears he pulled me close to him and laid my head on his shoulder.
THE FIRST SUPPER

I cried on Liam's shoulder for a long enough time for his shirt to be soaking wet with my tears. It wasn't too long after Liam had changed his shirt that Joshua came in pulling me saying it was time for supper. Liam and I waited in line for supper. It was rice with tomato and basil sauce poured over it, with diced potatoes on the side. Jack had also boiled water for use to brink. I would never do this for Fredrick because I would hope that that he would die from rancid water. After diner, Joshua played a pan flute while other men sang folk song and stories. They danced and laughed for hours. At one point, I had joined in clapping, and then danced with then for a song. All the men in this camp were young and handsome, and each one of them had something unique to offer to the group although there was only eight of them they were all skilled fighters.
Homer and Henry were a funny tag team. Homer was name after the Greek poet, Homer, because he was born Blind, despite that he had the ear of a hawk and could hear an enemy coming almost a mile away. He also told humored tall tales. He sang about how he walked over the oceans, and met a skilled masked ninja in Japan who taught him every martial art fighting style known to man, and how he was walking in the woods and he heard an evil man running, but homer was too fast for him and he jumped over him and kicked him all the way to England. The evil man then met Madusia and together they had a child who grow up to be Fredrick Clarkson. I admired Homer for his cleverness. He was able to comically explain how Fredrick was born and how a blind man has never fallen. As for Henry, he was the exact opposite as homer. He was not funny, and he was not blind. He was deaf, and could climb a tree like a chimp and could see from the tree top miles and miles of land. He was a scholar and knew all there was to know about diseases and could easily get medication, Which came in handy when one of them fell ill.
There was the black smith Isaac;